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Post-Election, Post-Cap-and-Trade: Obama Clings to an Anti-CO2 Agenda
On the day following the elections, President Obama urged policymakers not to forget about climate change. While he ideally would like to get help from the Congress in enacting legislation aimed at...
View ArticleThe New Guard of Climate Questioners: Get Ready for the Next Round of Climate...
Last Wednesday, November 17, 2010, the Subcommittee on Energy & Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology of the U. S. House of Representatives held a hearing on climate change titled...
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U.S. Rejection of CO2 Emission Cuts: Just Do the Math (16% and falling ….)
“[T]he impact that emissions reduction efforts in the U.S. will have on global emissions totals–and by extension, global climate–is quickly diminishing.” The just-released numbers for last year’s...
View ArticleScientific Communication: Preach or Engage? (Judith Curry vs. AGU climate bias)
“Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is going to cost a lot (both in terms of dollars and effort), and it is going to produce few if any demonstrable climate results for decades to come (if ever).” The...
View ArticleOvercoming the Climate: The Case of Malaria
“Malaria already kills a million people a year and now, researchers fear, climate change could make the problem even worse.” –ABC News, April 1, 2011 “Based on the new numbers, malaria deaths have...
View ArticleMisdirected Innovation: Environmentalist Taylor on Cap-and-Trade (Part I)
[Editor Note: This is Part One in a two-part series by Mr. Tanton on counter-productive regulation passed in the name of addressing manmade climate change. Part II tomorrow focuses on California. ]...
View ArticleAsian Air Pollution Warms U.S More than Our GHG Emissions (More futility for...
“The whims of foreign nations, not to mention Mother Nature, can completely offset any climate changes induced by U.S. greenhouse gas emissions reductions…. So, what’s the point of forcing Americans...
View ArticleFighting AGW Religion in North Carolina (sea-level-rise debate gets political)
What’s been happening recently in North Carolina (NC) is a microcosm of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) story: politics versus science, ad-hominems versus journalism, evangelists versus...
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EPA Overlook: Improved Health & Welfare from Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“The [EPA] Proposal ignores the obvious association between increased GHG emissions and positive health and welfare benefits. GHG emissions and improving quality of life are associated because the...
View ArticlePolitics: The Real Manmade Climate Crisis (Secretary Kerry, take note)
“Our real manmade climate crisis takes four closely related forms…. Influence peddling…. Politicized science, markets, and ethics… Climate eco-imperialism that impoverishes and kills…. Ready-made...
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IMF’s Carbon Tax Shenanigans: Part I
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published a report urging the world’s governments to “reform” energy subsidies estimated at $1.9 trillion in 2011. Eliminating government policies...
View ArticleIs the Carbon Tax Seance Over? (A reality check for a trumped-up...
When asked if a carbon tax was preferable to EPA regulations on greenhouse gases, David Kreutzer, a research fellow with the Heritage Foundation who sat on yesterday’s panel, described the question as...
View Article‘Blowing Smoke’ at Obama CO2 Policy: POWER’s Peltier Retires in High Style
“Obama’s sloppy use of science was carefully crafted to gain public support for ‘carbon pollution’ as the source of climate change. Using the term 20 times in his speech, he again conflated carbon...
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Warsaw Climate Talks Freshly Expose Real Agenda: Global Wealth Redistribution
The international global-warming theater is again in session. The doomed-from-the-start, out-of-time Kyoto Protocol of 2007 (“this agreement will be good for Enron stock!“) was followed by the failure...
View ArticleFighting Executive Fiat on Climate
“EPA’s actions routinely violate the Information Quality Act…. The closed circle of well-paid ‘peer reviewers’ employed by EPA, coupled with its close relationships with numerous Big Green...
View ArticleEPA’s CO2 Power Grab: Economic Consequences (Part 3)
“The climate change adaption program could make EPA a powerful master that could dictate to all departments in the government. Already the Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Department of...
View ArticleStones Into Bread: False Claims of CO2 Taxation
“If the government is going to force businesses and households to do things that are uneconomical, this will be costly. It will make the country as a whole poorer than it otherwise would have been, at...
View ArticleQuebec/Ontario Cap-and-Trade: Warnings from James Hansen
“Cap-and-trade is a hidden regressive tax, benefiting the select few who have managed to get themselves written into the … bill…. Think revolving door between the government and Wall Street. Think...
View ArticleJudith Curry vs. Climate Alarmism (John and Jerry–are you listening?)
“Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.” – Judith Curry,...
View Article“No Regrets” Climate Policy: Doing Much by Doing Little
“Climate change can seem like such a huge and intractable problem, its causes so beyond our control, that it’s easy to throw up your hands and say, “There’s not much I can do about it.” It seems like...
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